US President Joe Biden has asked the Israeli prime minister to reduce tensions. However, Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Hazem Qasim, has said that despite diplomatic efforts, Israel is refusing to end violence for a ceasefire. "No date has been set for a ceasefire because all international efforts, and Egyptian efforts, have stalled because of Israel's refusal to sign a ceasefire agreement," he said. He told Reuters that if Israel stopped bombing Gaza ... So there may be opportunities for dialogue to restore peace.
The head of Iran's special forces, the Revolutionary Guards, has said his country supports the Palestinians against a "Zionist state." In a televised statement, Hussein Salami said the fighting proved that the Palestinian nation was capable of defending itself with missiles. In the past, Hamas has received financial and military support from Iran. Relations between the two soured when Hamas refused to support Iran's ally and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the civil war in Syria. However, it is now believed that relations between the two sides were restored after that.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that he does not have a deadline to end the current military operation in Gaza, while continuing the exchange of fire with the Palestinian militias and after rumors yesterday about a possible ceasefire mediated by Egypt. In statements to journalists, the head of Government assured that Israel is not "on a timer" nor does it have a defined time frame to end the escalation of war with the enclave, which today entered its tenth day, reported the digital Times of Israel . Netanyahu met today with dozens of foreign ambassadors and assured that "Israel did everything it could" to prevent the wave of violence, referring to decisions by the Police to calm tensions with the Palestinians in East Jerusalem or the postponement of the judicial decision. on the eviction of Palestinian families in the Seij Yarrah neighborhood, triggers for the escalation with Gaza. "We are trying to maximize" the operation to restore "tranquility and the period of calm that Israel can win," the prime minister said in reference to the air strikes against militias targets of the Islamist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. To achieve this goal, he said, "there are two ways to do it: to conquer (Gaza), and that is always a possibility, or to be able to dissuade them" from attacking Israeli territory. "We are now immersed in (applying) a strong deterrent, but we do not rule out anything," he warned in relation to a possible land incursion into the enclave, something that has not occurred so far. The prime minister's meeting with dozens of diplomats comes after days of mediation attempts and international calls for the parties to reach a truce that has yet to materialize. In turn, Israeli media reported yesterday on a possible Egyptian-mediated ceasefire that would take effect on Thursday morning, although Netanyahu made no mention of that possibility today. According to him, in any attack on Gaza, the Army intelligence bodies try to "avoid collateral damage" and civilian casualties. "If democracies around the world attack Israel for it instead of Hamas, they will act clumsily and irresponsibly" and will reward "terrorism," he added on his social media. The president of the United States, Joe Biden , contacted Netanyahu on Wednesday to inform him that he expected a "de-escalation today" towards a ceasefire. "The president told the prime minister that he expected a significant de-escalation today toward a ceasefire," the White House said in an account of the telephone exchange between the two leaders.
Since the outbreak of the escalation on May 10, the Gaza Strip militias have launched at least 3,750 rockets towards Israel. The Army, for its part, has responded with more than a thousand attacks on targets in the coastal enclave. So far, the violence has resulted in 220 Palestinian victims in Gaza, including 63 minors, and 12 dead in Israel, also including two minors.
Fighters in Gaza are launching retaliatory rocket attacks on Israel, most of them in southern Israel. Several rockets landed in Ashkelon and Ashdod, but no casualties were reported. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has said that Israel is fighting for peace. On the issue of ceasefire, he has told foreign diplomats not to "stand with a stopwatch." Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Israel of committing war crimes, while Israel says it targets only where terrorist acts take place and has refrained from harming civilians.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said in a video message released on Twitter that his government will continue operations against Palestinian militants. His remarks come at a time when US President Joe Biden has called on him to reduce tensions. Netanyahu did not comment on the phone call, but said he was grateful for Biden's support, in which the United States defended Israel's right to self-defense.
"I am determined to continue this operation until its goals, which are to restore peace and security for the citizens of Israel, are achieved," he said. Demands for a ceasefire at the diplomatic level have not yet been met.
China has criticized the United States for its role in Middle East tensions, saying the United States had vetoed a meeting on Palestine and paralyzed the Security Council.According to the International News Agency, a statement issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry called on Israel to call for a complete ceasefire with Palestine and said that the role of the United States in the Israeli-Palestinian issue is disappointing. The United States paralyzed the Security Council by vetoing a meeting on this important issue. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Xiao Lijian, in a tweet on a social networking site, asked users whether the United States, a human rights activist, was justified in doing so when the Palestinian people were suffering, or whether it was in Israel's interest to do so. Have an excuse to offer your services? And is that what the United States says is a principled international order? Earlier in the day, at a press conference, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Xiao Lijian called on the United States to use its influence to prevent Israeli attacks and to fulfill this important responsibility. On the other hand, the United States says that we have only postponed the Security Council meeting until Sunday, not canceled the meeting. We want more time for peace talks on this important issue between Israel and Palestine. Important decisions will be made in Sunday's meeting.
For the first time, Israel is facing financial losses from the attacks of the Palestinian resistance organization Hamas. Hamas attacks have damaged Israel's trade and shipping industry, leading to a war risk premium for Israeli ports. Ships going to Israeli ports will pay an additional $50,000 to $1.5 million, while staying at an Israeli port for more than seven days will double the amount. In addition, the war risk premium for cargo will be increased separately.
According to AFP news agency, the United States has once again refused to support the proposed UN Security Council resolution in France, which calls for a ceasefire on Israeli-Palestinian tensions. A US spokesman told the United Nations that "we have made it clear that our focus is on serious diplomatic efforts to end the violence and that we will not support any such move." That would discourage efforts to reduce tensions. The United States is one of five permanent members of the Security Council with veto power.
This is the first time that US President Joe Biden has directly called for a ceasefire with Israel, or for an immediate reduction in tensions. So far, he has insisted on Israel's right to self-defense and called on Hamas to stop rocket attacks. Today, he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that tensions must now be reduced and that it would be appropriate for Israel to suspend the operation in order to pave the way for a ceasefire. He linked the decline to Hamas's military capabilities and the situation in Gaza, where human rights abuses are on the rise. Biden was under increasing political and international pressure to intervene in the conflict and play a role in ending the violence. The UN Security Council is set to meet again on Thursday. He has given the impression that the United States may no longer provide diplomatic protection to Israel.
There has long been tension on the border between Israel and its neighbor Lebanon. From 1948 to 1949, the Arab-Israeli conflict escalated relations between the two countries. On this border, the Israeli army faces the Lebanese army and Hezbollah, and peacekeepers try to establish peace. The armed group Hezbollah has Iranian backing and has influence over the country's security and political affairs with the Lebanese army. In 2006, Israel and Hezbollah fought a month-long war that killed 1,190 Lebanese and 163 Israelis. A ceasefire was then imposed with the help of the United Nations. Several rockets have been fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel in the past 10 days. Earlier, this happened on Monday. No rocket damage was reported. The Israeli military says most of the attacks were thwarted or carried out in uninhabited areas.
Several rockets have been fired from Lebanon into northern Israel. The Israeli military says four rockets were fired at it: one was intercepted, another fell into the open and two fell into the Mediterranean. According to the Times of Israel, warning sirens were sounded in and around Shifa Amro, Haifa, Kreut and its environs. According to the news agency Reuters, the residents of Kryut have heard three big explosions. However, no injuries have been reported so far. The Israeli military says it has hit targets in Lebanon in retaliation. Lebanon and Israel have been at war for a month in 2006, and since then there have been several armed groups in Lebanon, including Hezbollah. Security sources told Reuters that the rockets were launched from the village of Siddiqin, near the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tire, towards Israel. Initially, it was not clear who fired the rockets and what the damage was from the attacks on both sides.
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